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Post actions for menus (Autostart DVDs)
You can enter these (as well as the
pause before
it) in the background
dialog (right-click on the menu background).
Pause: Sets the time the menu is shown (if no buttons are
pressed
so long) before the selected action is raised. The range is 0
to
255 seconds or "inf" (infinite).
Default is "inf" for still menus (there no action needs to
be selected) and "0" for animated menus, since these are normally
shown in 'loop' mode (repeating itself). Also in this case
no action should be selected (makes no sense!).
In order to create an 'Autostart' DVD, you can set the pause (in the
main menu) to a desired length and select the action to do thereafter.
The action to select depends on your general project set up and on the
selected authoring engine (dvdauthor or MuxMan).
1. Dvdauthor
For SingleVTS DVDs ('Use titlesets' switched off) a jump to any film
(title) is possible. Therefore you can set the action to 'jump
title 1;' to start the first film. It is not possible to jump to a
specific chapter.
For MultiVTS DVDs ('Use
titlesets' switched on) you may either jump to any film (title) or to a
titleset menu.
Therefore the action can be set to 'jump title 1;' or 'jump
titleset 1 menu;' for
starting the
first film, if you have selected 'Show movie' in the
default project
settings as 'Start action', as in this case the titleset menu
is "jumped over". (How
that exactly works is described in the Variables concept).
2. MuxMan
For SingleVTS DVDs ('Use titlesets' switched off) a jump to any film
(title) is possible. Therefore you can set the action to 'JumpTT
TitleSet1_Title1' to start the first film. It is not possible to jump
to a
specific chapter.
For MultiVTS DVDs ('Use
titlesets' switched on) you may either jump to any film (title) or to a
titleset menu.
Therefore the action can be set to 'JumpTT TitleSet1_Title1'
or 'JumpSS vts_1, vts_ttn_1 : RootMenu' for
starting the
first film. But unlike the dvdauthor example, you would need to set up
the TitleSet1Menu also with an appropriate pre action for the second
command, as no automatic 'jump over' commands are created by GFD
therefore.
In this way also for other menus (titlesetmenus or submenus) a default
action may be set, like to switch of subtitles if nothing is selected
in a subtitle menu within 20 seconds.
If you want/need more control for the post (and pre) actions, you may use the Advanced Pre/Post Command Editor.